simple man.

Life has changed dramatically since I have come home from college. Whenever I drive around and do my many errands, or go to the gym, I look out of my car windows and don't see Lambo dealerships and obnoxious materialistic Long Islanders, but I see horses and cows. At home, I am surrounded by large fields and barns with paddocks filled with fouls and their mothers. It's peaceful. I don't feel rushed to do anything. Upstate sets it's own pace to do certain things. The toughest transition would have to be opening up to people that I have not talked to in a year. During my freshman year of school, Long Island did indeed change the way that I viewed our society. That reched place taught me how to really stand up for myself and to protect the people that meant the most to me. Long Island conditioned me to hate almost everyone. Before that place I would introduce myself to people, I would people get to know me just a little bit, but now... I don't feel like anyone deserves to know who I am. I'm not afraid to let someone know what i think about them. I honestly don't care if someone never talks to me again.

Being home has helped. Besides the obnoxious petty arugements with the "best friend," I now have a simple man by my side. Instead of having the "best friend" telling me to open up, Seth just waits for me to open up to him. He knows that school was hard and that everything has pretty much changed for me. I fought him for three years about everything and just realized that it is time to be a little spoon. I have decided to let someone else protect me for once, to take me out to dinner, tell me about their day, and learn about their lifestyle. It's nice knowing that people see a change in you, a good change. They are starting to notice that I'm smiling more and seem a lot happier. Life just feels like it's looking up.